so i was cleaning up my room and found my ibook chillin under my desk with a dead battery. sad so i charged it up cursed a bit as the system clock problems went away. then found that my ibook was horribly out of date. did some apple updates, then remembered that Tiger is out so i need to russle up a copy of that and check it out. I also have linux installed on the ibook, after a few hours trying passwords for the root i finally got in. a old copy of gentoo from 2003. yuck, it was a fun idea that mike and i had back in the day. but i don't like gentoo. growing up with mandrake/redhat i had to go back to it somehow. well redhat and mandrake all went the way of the dino. so time for a new distro. i remember reading about Yellow Dog Linux back in 2000 and figured it must be good now if its still around. after all they are PPC as the primary platform. Also i found out that mandrake stopped the PPC at 9.0

so after some light reading i downloaded the 4 cd’s (ouch) and installed them out. still running osX.3 as a secondary partition and now YDL as primary. Also been a while since i used X windows. read a little on the new KDE/GNOME well i hate KDE i cant stand the user interface and think anyone who likes linux for its KDE needs a refresh in the fact that a computer is supposed to be EASY to use. not something you have to konquer! so gnome it is. as a side note i read a few things where people criticise the fact that people need a GUI for linux saying “go back to the console” wtf where are you from, thats what i expect to hear from a 78yr old Professor at Princeton. sure console is for things but you dont work in a telnet session all day. and if you do …HAHA (i’m a nerd)

anyway so i download cd’s and pop them in and choose install i also found this nice looking “install” pdf and mostly printed it out because i was trying to figure out the page numbers then realised its a little bind yore own book. well i just wanted to make my own book so i printed it and stapled it into a cool little linux install book i never really looked at the contents but i do have a nice book

the install is what i remember of my early linux days, just cleaner the install is now fast and concise, there is no crap and it dont look like GNOME .9 anymore i like that. some package picking installing all the compilation tools since thats about all i need a linux tool for. that and WEP cracking.

after first boot there is a config menu just like windows, i like this, congrats YDL team.  very easy setup they dont make the network card setup part of all this, i had to do this by experience and not a wizard. then using YUM i updated the whole distro, installed firefox and BAM now i go play with tiger.

Tiger! ok so other then the new SMB support i have no care for the new product. it broke 2/3 of the applications i use on OSX – broke VPC,VPN other then that nothing eventful. If you care then you dont read my blog for this type of news anyway.

i thought about making some how-to on the subject matter but there is more then you need out there, if you ahve a Q comment back – holla’